Hello Maurice!

26 May 2017 23:47, Maurice Kinal wrote to Maria Antonia Josepha Johanna:

 MK> ----- ':read !iconv -f utf8 -t cp437 -c squirrels.utf8 | tr -d 
 MK> '\0-\177' | wc --bytes' starts

here you tell iconv to use utf8 source, this can be default in ftn, but it is a
fail to asssume it, if that was easy you would not need -f

without -f iconv only see 7bit


 Regards Benny

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